Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...connection between big-time hoop and a winning basketball program is only a tenuous one, and the concept of the player-student often becomes no more than a facile explanation for a losing season at Harvard, one which evades the real question of why other schools can develop good programs and this school...
...right-to-work laws. He has told union leaders that if they can persuade Congress to pass a repeal of the laws, he would sign it as President. But he refuses to take the lead in the matter and even suggests that he favors the right-to-work concept. Aware of these ambiguities, he adds: "The truth is, I just don't think it's a very important issue?and I don't think the unions really do either...
...been awakened at night only once. How did West decide that Patty had really lost sleep, Bancroft wanted to know. "An educated guess," responded the psychiatrist. "So," Bancroft shot back, "you made an 'educated guess' on one of the most important parts of the deprivation concept...
...entire basis of dramatic update is problematic. Modernization presupposes limitations of audience imagination, and that undermines the very concept of drama. Drama entails entering a world not our own, and that involvement is not necessarily made smoother when the characters wear Bloomingdales' outfits and mutter in student slang. "Relevance" has little to do with decade or decor. Adaptation often weakens the playwright's intentions; Kolzak's Ghosts in surface mirrors Ibsen but in substance is worlds apart...
Unlike Cooper's mischievousness, Bowie's energetic bisexuality partook of something more profound. In projecting his adrogynous persona, Bowie expressed not just changing attitudes toward homosexuality, but he was also working out the feminist's expansive concept of sex roles. He galvanized people by presenting not just rock songs, but the glimpse of a whole other kind of life. His counter-sexuality had the electrifying effect that the counter-culture had lost. As Dylan could moralize in '66 about Mr. Jones and his closed mind, so Bowie in '73 could chide the prudes and exhort his followers in "Changes...